Through community organizing, education, policy and research, the Community Organizing and Public Advocacy (COPA) Department works towards shifting policy, building power of community members and responding to incidents of anti-LGBTQI+ violence in order to create systemic change in people’s lives.
The preservation of access to justice and the provision of quality legal counsel, advice and representation for individuals who are unable to protect their rights because they cannot afford an attorney.
They top priorities are to reform the criminal legal system and uphold Indigenous justice. We also work to protect the rights of immigrants, safeguard reproductive freedom, celebrate LGBTQ people and families, ensure voting rights, protect free speech, and more.
PROMO is Missouri's statewide organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality through legislative action, electoral politics, grassroots organizing, and community education.
Community-based LGBTQ rights organization. Their justice team provides peer support and mentoring to trans people. They also provide legal services for trans individuals, including legal guidance in cases of discrimination.
The ACLU of Michigan's mission remains realizing the promise of the Bill of Rights for all and expanding the reach of its guarantees to new areas through all the tools at our disposal: public education, advocacy, organizing, and litigation.
Envision a Maryland where people across the spectrum of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identities are free to live authentically, with safety and dignity, in all communities throughout our state. The organization provides trainings, outreach, & education, legal services, and does policy advocacy
The ACLU works to ensure that LGBT people have equal opportunity to participate fully in civil society. No LGBT person should experience discrimination in employment, housing, or in businesses and public places, or the suppression of their free expression or privacy rights. The ACLU seeks new laws against discrimination, and resists all attempts to weaken the impact of existing nondiscrimination laws
The Fairness Campaign is Kentucky’s LGBTQ advocacy organization founded in 1991, the Fairness Campaign is working in cities and towns all across Kentucky to advance LGBTQ rights and acceptance through legislative advocacy and public education
Equality Kansas, formerly the Kansas Equality Coalition, was established in October 2005. Originally formed by the merger of independent LGBT advocacy groups in Topeka, Manhattan, and Wichita, Equality Kansas is a chapter-based grassroots organization. They currently have 11 chapters and over 2000 members around the state.
One Iowa is the state’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organization working toward full equality for LGBT individuals in Iowa through grassroots efforts and education.
Formerly Illinois Federation for Human Rights. Founded in 1991. The mission of Equality Illinois is to secure, protect, and defend the basic civil rights of LGBTQ+ persons in the state of Illinois. (Based in Chicago)
Their mission is to elevate inclusion and belonging for BIPOC Idahoans, the LGBTQIIA+ community, those with disabilities, women, immigrants and refugees through advocacy, education, programs, community engagement and policy change
LSND’s mission is to provide high quality legal advice, education and representation to low-income North Dakotans as well as disadvantaged elderly in areas of civil law.
The Colorado Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (“LGBT”) Bar Association is a voluntary professional association of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender attorneys, judges, paralegals and law students and allies who provide an LGBTQ presence within Colorado’s legal community.
The Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA) is a Charleston-based nonprofit organization. Founded in 1998, AFFA is working to achieve, nurture, and defend equality and full acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people throughout South Carolina.
The oldest statewide organization in the country dedicated to securing rights and protections for the LGBTQ community." This organization focuses on anti-violence, racial justice, nondiscrimination, protecting youth, and HIV/AIDS work.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center is the nation’s largest community-based provider of LGBT-related legal services, supported by a team of staff and volunteer attorneys, law students, paralegals, and interns.